Bio

T.J. Jourian is a social justice educator, learner, activist, and speaker, having spoken and provided trainings at hundreds of college campuses, conferences, and community-based organizations all over the country. He is currently on the Training Team of the Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to changing the way that communities of color talk about gender. T.J. self-identifies as a pansexual queer Middle-Eastern Armenian trans*man, and his passion lies with supporting, learning from, and participating in social justice work that is intersectional, empowering, and dynamic – much like what he aspires to deliver through his own work. He is proud to be part of the 2014 Trans* 100. In 2005, T.J. was featured in the Sundance docu-series TransGeneration, depicting the lives of four trans* college students during a single academic year at four different institutions. The series went on to win the 2006 GLAAD Media Award for Best Documentary. Currently, a PhD Candidate in ﻿﻿Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago﻿﻿, he is finishing his dissertation on trans*masculine college students' conceptualizations of masculinity.

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Whether you are looking for a keynote speaker, trainer, or someone to consult with, T.J. might just be who you are looking for. His work spans across race, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, activism, leadership and organizational change, presenting to a variety of audiences across the country, including high school and college students and educators, community organizers and members, academics, legal professionals, and more. From large scale audiences to small classroom settings, from 101-level trainings to advanced dialogues, T.J. manages to have broad appeal while simultaneously challenging everyone to show up for justice.

Example Presentations and Trainings Facilitated

·From Accessing to Shaping: Rethinking Trans* ‘Inclusion’ on College Campuses·Being Brown About It: An Intersectional Trans*formation·Surface Level: Culture as an Iceberg and Constructions of Masculinities and Femininities ·Deconstructing the Gender Mosaic: The GenderQueer and Non-Binary Pieces of the Puzzle ·Assessing and Improving Transgender Student Inclusion·Trans* Students and Housing·Genderism, Transgender Students and the Binary System in Higher Education·Still POC: The Impact of White Centrism in the LGBTQ Community on the Experience of Queer People of Color·Understanding and Serving LGBTQI Patients

About that asterisk: This website uses the asterisk (*) as a linguistic disruption of sorts that shifts the meaning of words to intentionally reference from a trans perspective (e.g., trans*form). In most cases, it is not used after the word "trans" as is becoming common in many spaces (see this article for an explanation of the etymology and meaning of trans*), except when directly cited or is part of an already published piece. This is to honor the ongoing discussions and tensions amongst trans communities regarding the use/misuse of the asterisk. See, the following three articles to learn about some of these discussions and tensions: by Julia Serano, by the Trans Student Educational Resources, and by Practical Androgyny.